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Microsoft conveniently forgets Wii as it boasts 11.6 million Xbox 360s sold

September 23, 2007 in News comments 9

Another day gone and another game company boasts about itself leaving major details out! The X-Box 360 indeed well popular has sold 11.6 Million X-Box 360s but they leave out that this was over 2 years though! The Nintendo Wii has sold more than that and it has only been out for about 9 months! This proves that even though a company thinks there doing well in the gaming business, their actually not!

In the lead up to the launch of the much hyped Halo 3, Microsoft has proudly announced that it has sold more than 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles in 37 countries.

What, of course, it hasn't said, is that it took almost two years to sell these units (the Xbox 360 was released in November 2005), and that according to some reports, cumulative sales of the Nintendo Wii (released November 2006) have already surpassed those of the Xbox 360.

Another thing that Microsoft is also not saying us is that in the all important Japanese market it has sold just 400,000 Xbox 360s, which contrasts to sales of 3.4 million Wiis.
Kazooieman via gamer.blorge.com »
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  • 1
    Incidnia Sep 23, 07
    It's shipped 11.6 million. But that doesn't mean that the 11.6 million has been sold from the suppliers. I thought around 9 million consoles were actually sold.
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    Bale Fire* Sep 23, 07
    Yeah I heard that too.

    Anyway kazooieman companies do not have to tell people how well other companies are doing. Nintendo seem to conveniently forget to mention that the the Wii is no longer outselling the PS3 by more than 2 to 1 but does anyone make a big deal over it? No, Microsoft have not lied or done anything wrong so stop attacking them
    • 1
      Tenken Sep 23, 07
      Besides, the actual title of the article itself is rather redundant seeing as how no one considers the Wii in the console race anymore.
      • 0
        Final Blade Sep 23, 07
        I beg to differ Tenken, they may not be competing against ps3 or 360 but clearly they are still apart of the console war. So its not redundant.
  • 0
    Pyrazor Sep 23, 07
    Not particularly, people tend to consider the Wii a next-gen boardgame since most of it's titles are family oriented or similar. It has very very few titles that could be called console gaming.

    Also, just because Microsoft has taken longer to sell more does not mean that they're not doing well. With LIVE Subscriptions and the fact that they had the sense to take advantage of an early release shows they're doing fine.
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    Dance Floor Killah Sep 23, 07
    I don't see the Wii as something in the console war.
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    Theory of Chaos Sep 23, 07
    Microsoft is still doing pretty damn good for itself in the console wars, and it definatly has the best lineup on any system out of the three. Let them flaunt.
    • 0
      Existenz Sep 23, 07
      *cough* headstart... it is actually doing the worst out of all the consoles, they have shipped 11.6 million but they have only sold about 9 million, the PS3 has shipped about 10 million and sold 5 million in half the time...
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    Storm Sep 24, 07
    They have got to stop talking about how many consoles they sold or what the stats are and focus on more important matters, like what they'll have to offer us in the upcoming year or two.

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